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﻿Students knew fractions but ﻿couldn't apply them to real-life problems...

﻿My class was a complete failure﻿!

﻿There's a big difference between just knowing and really understanding﻿

Sorry to hear that!﻿

﻿That's something different...﻿

﻿When I do my lesson planning, I design the unit backwards from the big idea to real-problem situations

﻿My students know ﻿﻿the textbook from cover to cover but still don't do it well on tests

﻿For me, textbooks are ﻿only a guide, a resource to what I teach, but not an only source.

UbD is a curriculum planning approach to enhance meaningful understanding and transfer of learning in any discipline.﻿

﻿We must do more than teach rote facts or teach for coverage﻿. ﻿We must teach for understanding.

UbD is different ﻿- in order to begin the lesson planning process, we must start at the end: clarify results and evidence of them before planning the learning experiences.

﻿The point of school is not to simply excell in ﻿each class, but to be able to use one's learning in different settings.

﻿Right, we want students, in the end, to be able to do with what they have learned.﻿

﻿UbD avoids treating the textbook as implementing the curriculum rather than a resource and also teaching with no clear purposes or priorities.

In﻿ UbD teachers are perceived as coaches of sudent understanding. Teachers ensure that learning happens and do not assume that what is beng taught is being learned.

The main corner stone of UbD is that factual knowledge and skills are not taught for their own sake, but as a means to larger ends - learners will be able to use their learning far beyond the classroom. ﻿